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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 11 hours ago

those kinda look like greek loukmas/Turkish lokmas

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Donut is just an American variation of tbe spelling, and consideeing they're talking about what Americans call this, donut is perfectly acceptable, and maybe even a more correct usage than the doughnut spelling

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Damn i have always had it in my head as dough knot. And it never looks right when i write it out.

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

If its more correct, then why have I been nutting in the dough all this time?

[–] sjkhgsi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 20 hours ago

a Tim Hortons™️ Timbit™️

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Am I the only one that finds the whole "fake British words" genre of meme painfully unfunny?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

All those fixins at a hootenanny sounds like my kind of shindig!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Deez nut holes

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think you could even convince English people that "merry fizzlebombs" and "upsy stairsies" are some kind of regional slang. Might even get away with "breaddystack" or "rickedy-pop" if you play your cards right.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'll come up the apples and have a butchers, but if you're telling porkies then there's gonna be some argy bargy.

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[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In the UK these are called doughnuts.

The presence of a hole isnt a pre-requisite to being deemed a doughnut here.

Calling something that has zero holes a 'donut hole', will absolutely have a local refer to you as a doughnut tho...

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

But how do you differentiate between a doughnut ( o ) and a doughnut o. I'd be so pissed if I asked for a doughnut and someone handed me this tiny shit.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

One without a hole is a doughnut. One with is a doughnut ring.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's called a doughnut hole because it's implied to be the piece of dough that was punched out to make a regular circular doughnut that has a hole in it.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 29 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Oh I understand that. I was just being facetious; my point was more to do with the definition of a hole, and how it's used here to describe something that definitely is not a hole.

If we're pedantic, then the doughnut hole is the middle bit of the original doughnut, now that this part has been punched out.

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[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Make sure yours are flared before you eat them or they could get stuck

[–] Bassman27@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

And oral beads would be more accurate

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[–] glups@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Munchkins. Idc if they aren't from Dunkin'.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 21 hours ago

Grew up near a Dunkin.

They Munchkins and donut hole purists can shove it.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 day ago (40 children)

Tim bits is what we use in Canada

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[–] Spicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Timbits. even if they are not form Timmy's

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Tim Horton's sucks now so they should always be "not from Timmy's"

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If these were British, they’d be coated in granulated sugar and called doughnut… balls? Just tiny doughnuts? I can’t imagine someone wouldn’t want to put jam in the middle or dip them in chocolate.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Nah man, Brits would split them in half and spread a mixture of marmite and clotted cream on them.

Half of the population would call them "Yorkie balls" and the other would insist they're just scones.

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